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Future

/ˈfjuː.t͡ʃəː/ · noun

Meaning

The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced..

Definitions by Sense

  1. The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
  2. Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
  3. Goodness in what is yet to come. Something to look forward to.
  4. The likely prospects for or fate of someone or something in time to come.
  5. (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
  6. (finance) Alternative form of futures.
  7. (computing, programming) An object that retrieves the value of a promise.
  8. (sports) A minor-league prospect.

Example Sentences

This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."
There is no future in dwelling on the past.
Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.
Again, it's unlikely they will return to traffic, but futures have been secured for four that will be heading to heritage railways [...].
Future generations will either laugh or cry at our stupidity.
So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,[…]a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
It[The study] also attempts to predict the future progression of AI as it relates to new inventions.

Synonyms for future

to-cometowardunborncomingfuturehereafterforthcomingprospectiveproximoulteriorsucceedingapproachingrisingfuturityemergingnextearlyupcominglaterfuture tensefuture daytime to comeprox

Antonyms for future

pastpresentyoreyesteryearpast times

Related Words

futurityhereafterearlysubsequentlaterforthcomingupcomingsucceedingproximoprospectivenextfuture tenseincomingulteriorcomingemergingapproachingproxrisingfuture day

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Frequently Asked Questions

What does future mean?

Future means The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced..

What is a synonym for future?

Common synonyms include to-come, toward, unborn, coming.

What is the opposite of future?

Possible antonyms include past, present, yore, yesteryear.

How do you use future in a sentence?

This solitary attitude stems in part from a deep sense of fatalism and futility, a profound social effect of the genophage that caused krogan numbers to dwindle to a relative handful. Not only are they angry that the entire galaxy seems out to get them, the krogan are also generally pessimistic about their race's chances of survival. The surviving krogan see no point to building for the future; there will be no future. The krogan live with an attitude of "kill, pillage, and be selfish, for tomorrow we die."

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